>I've been able to run any TCP/IP program I like on my PC once I'm on AOL. I've also had >scans hit me from everything, from netbus to nimda. AFAIK, AOL does not protect the user >from the Internet. You have to do that yourself.
Now, are you running a personal firewall on your machine as well? If so, did anything get let through? What I'm trying to get at there is that the CERT paper is saying that the traffic to the AOL IP address may be relayed in a way to allow it to bypass personal firewalls. Have you seen this? >I'm going to have to read up on what this tunnel thing is, can you remind me of the link to >this report? The paper is at http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/DoS_trends.pdf. Tyler
